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How Many White People Does It Take to Ruin a Good Joke?
I love making fun of white people. I do it every day. It garners laughs, which, as a humorist, is what I want most in this world. But as a black woman, there’s also another, more elemental reason for telling jokes at white people’s expense. The reason is not that I hate white people (some of my best friends are white!) but that this sort of racialized humor is an instrument that people of color can use to placate themselves in the face of the overwhelming reality...
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That's Racist... makes me want to make fun of black people. I try to avoid doing so, too easy a target.
Really even the concepts of "white" and "black" are racist and degrading. We all know Europe is diverse, that the Italians are not the same as the Swedes, but Africa is even more diverse... not to mention that "African Americans" have little African left in them, culturally or genetically.